On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:35:59AM -0500, J wrote:
> > I've had Linux for almost 2 months and am substantially less confused than I was. YAY! I've been using Windows since the very beginning of Windows & DOS before
> > that so I'm pretty literate in Windows. I'm also not afraid of this machine! I have a laptop & have tried to get it to recognize a USB floppy drive without success.
Well, that's what I tell my users--when I walk over, and the problem has
magically stopped, I say, "They're like dogs and horses--you can't show
them fear."
>
> FWIW, Ubuntu is not terribly floppy friendly anymore as floppies have
> really gone the way of the dodo. It may be that you just need to load
> the proper driver (maybe it's usb_floppy?? I don't recall) or it could
> be something else.
>
> In general terms, however, a USB device is a USB device and floppies
> have historically just worked. So this is not proper behaviour
> (IMHO).
I tend to agree with the second paragraph.
>
> Open a terminal
> Run the command "lsusb"
> Plug the floppy in and wait a few seconds (does the floppy light up
> when you plug it in indicating it's getting power?)
> Run the "lsusb" command again and see if the floppy appears in the output
>
> You can also look at the logs (/var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog)
> and see if there are errors that appear when you plug the floppy drive
> in.
What I do to trouble shoot USB is run dmesg |tail
after plugging it in--this usually gives me some information.
--
Scott Robbins
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